QUICK-CHANGE FOG.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 104, 25 January 1908, Page 13

QUICK-CHANGE FOG.

Remarkably quick "change's in weather jilienomoun wore witnosScd iirund about London recently. , • The early morning "in.the country around was cloar and sunny, with just enough frost to crisp tlio grass. 1 Suddenly, iyith.no warning, the face of tlio country" was obsc.ured.by a thick wet fog. At Hcndoii and Hitcliin peoplo wlio 'started from' homo iii' sunshine wero wet with fo<j before 'they reached the station, and all up, th<v northern',lines fogsignals were exploded.;' ' ' . London had n different expenVnc.Oj .Which was, however, due ito. tho same en use.. Tho early arrivals at Covent Garden begair work in a white fog, which lasted'.till 9.3Q, and was universal/in tho Thames Vailcy. Then a pall of blackliess fell as suddenly tho country fog, and night succeeded daylight-iri fivo.minutes. But tho relief 'ivii's hardly'jess.sudden than the gloom. In. less tliah an" hour tho darkness had vanished. Heine Hill, for oxaniplo, and llounslow wore in utter gloom at 10, but even tho darkest places in' London, suelt as. tli'o neighbourhood,: of the Albert Hull, wero clear at 11.15. Tho cause of the phenomena was a sudden shift- of the wind to tlio north and north-west. A cold draught, with its current sharply defined, chilled the warm and stagnant air which condensed at the touch into a fop that very nearly approacbcd, rain.. ..The pressure was too much for London's smoke, .'which made a temporary coiling over tlio town 'till tlie rising wind brought its own remedy. Tlio streets wero lighted, up during the' black period, cab-horsos had to be led by their drivers, and tho motor-omnibuses moved slowly along, tlio fog dimming the radiance of thoir headlights. To see across a street was an impossibility, .and pedestrians had literally to feel their way to their ties* tiuatious. . A correspondent who left Londbn for tho north at 10.30, when tlio blackness of night reigned in Central London writes: "Fivo minutes of high speed took tho train practically out of tho fog. The inner suburbs wero hardly obscured by a thin whito mist; in the, outer suburbs it became thinner still! and tho lirst 30 miles of tho countrv seemed' about, to find the sun.

How many sick people obey their physicians ? There aro cases, in which disregard of iho physician's orders lias resulted disastrously to Iho patient.' , The sick man is as prone to think his physician knows littio as the well man is to think ho knows nptliiii". —"Newa Siu J'WOTfleo, „